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Monosaccharide-induced lipogenesis regulates the human hepatic sex hormone–binding globulin gene
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The liver produces plasma sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which transports sex steroids and regulates their access to tissues. In overweight children and adults, low plasma SHBG levels are a biomarker of the metabolic syndrome and its associated pathologies. Here, we showed in transgenic mice and HepG2 hepatoblastoma cells that monosaccharides (glucose and fructose) reduce human SHBG production by hepatocytes. This occurred via a downregulation of hepatocyte nuclear factor-4alpha (HNF-4alpha) and replacement of HNF-4alpha by the chicken OVA upstream promoter-transcription factor 1 at a cis-element within the human SHBG promoter, coincident with repression of its transcriptional activity. The dose-dependent reduction of HNF-4alpha levels in HepG2 cells after treatment with glucose or fructose occurred in concert with parallel increases in cellular palmitate levels and could be mimicked by treatment with palmitoyl-CoA. Moreover, inhibition of lipogenesis prevented monosaccharide-induced downregulation of HNF-4alpha and reduced SHBG expression in HepG2 cells. Thus, monosaccharide-induced lipogenesis reduced hepatic HNF-4alpha levels, which in turn attenuated SHBG expression. This provides a biological explanation for why SHBG is a sensitive biomarker of the metabolic syndrome and the metabolic disturbances associated with increased fructose consumption.
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“Additionally, monosaccharides seem to decrease SHBG levels in a dose-dependent manner after supplementation of either glucose or fructose by reducing SHBG promotor activity.”
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“Monosaccharides, also abundantly present in a state of IR, thus explain low levels of SHBG in this state of disease [131].”
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“In fact, in transgenic mice expressing human SHBG, fructose, which as opposed to glucose fails to stimulate pancreatic insulin secretion, can effectively further reduce SHBG levels below decreased SHBG levels by glucose, confirming the limited role of insulin in this process [131].”
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“Experimental research in rodents demonstrated that the presence of monosaccharides, and not insulin, quickly regulates hepatic SHBG expression by altering hepatic HNF-4α levels.”
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“However, according to recent studies, insulin may not regulate the production of SHBG [33, 34].”
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“It was also suggested that excess monosaccharide consumption and levels of fasting glucose rather than elevated insulin levels are the actual determinants of liver SHBG production.36,37 In addition, Selva et al.36, have previously described the role of de novo lipogenesis in the down regulation of hepatic SHBG express…”
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“[30] Furthermore, insulin inhibits the activity of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1 while simultaneously elevating the availability of insulin-like growth factor 1.”
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“Thus, obesity, particularly central obesity and steatosis, inhibits production of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) [4, 5] contributing to lower circulating total T, through a lower T binding capacity, with only little affection of the free testosterone (FT) concentration [5].”
BackgroundExamining the associations between testosterone and biomarkers as men age
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“1 Several in vitro 2 and in vivo 3 studies have implicated insulin as a suppressor of hepatic production of SHBG.”
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“Selva et al. (2007) demonstrated that glucose, sucrose and fructose reduced SHBG production by hepatocytes.”
BackgroundFunctional characterization of sex hormone-binding globulin genetic polymorphism
Wu, T.-S. (2015) · cIRcle (University of British Columbia) · doi:10.14288/1.0166338 · Cited by 3
“decrease in HNF4 levels, so that COUP-TF1 can replace it and reduce SHBG production in HepG2 cells (72).”
BackgroundKoene, E., Schrauwen‐Hinderling, V. B., Basset‐Sagarminaga, J., Brouwers, K., Bruls, Y. M. H., Mevenkamp, J., Haans, F., Schaart, G., Moonen‐Kornips, E., Jörgensen, J. A., et al. (2026) · Nature Metabolism · doi:10.1038/s42255-026-01626-5 · Cited by 2
“These hepatokines have a strong mechanistic link with either DNL (that is, SHBG) or its regulators (that is, FGF-21 and follistatin) 25–29 (Fig.”
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“…have been consistently associated with elevations in SHBG, accompanied by improvements in glycaemic regulation, insulin sensitivity, and androgen homeostasis (18, 29–32 , 68 Frontiers in Nutrition 16 frontiersin.org generation and simultaneously inhibits SHBG synthesis within the liver (16, 34–36).”
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“The role of SHBG as a biomarker associated with metabolic dysregulation has been described in experimental animal models, which have shown that glucose-and fructose-induced lipogeneses decrease liver SHBG synthesis [13].”
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“It has been demonstrated that enhanced de novo lipogenesis in the liver, a process consisting of conversion of acetyl-coenzyme A to free fatty acids, is crucial for NAFLD development and can down regulate SHBG synthesis (44, 45).”
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SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN GENE POLYMORPHISM AND RISK OF TYPE2 DIABETES MELLITUS IN EGYPTIAN MEN
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“Hyperinsulinemia induced by insulin resistance probably causes low levels of sex hormone–binding globulin in insulin-resistant conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and the polycystic ovary syndrome (19) .”
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Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin Prevents Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Liver Fibrosis Development
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“Specifically, we and others have shown that SHBG expression is suppressed by (a) hepatic lipid accumulation driven by high-carbohydrate diets [6], (b) elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α ) and interleukin-1 β (IL-1 β ) [9–11], and (c) increased…”
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“Along the same lines, studies on diabetic patients reported a difference in the mean age of onset of type 2 diabetes based on HNF1A genotype in women, but not in men [56], while also a potential correlation between sex hormones and Hnf1a expression [57] was suggested.”
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“SHBG is thought to interact with ERα to regulate the transport of estrogens (and testosterone) into tissues (Hammond, 2016), and it’s concentrations are negatively associated with the severity of NAFLD and other metabolic disease risk-factors in humans (Kavanagh et al., 2013; Luo et al., 2018).”
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REGULATION OF ANDROGEN ACTION BY SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN
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Metadata
- Authors
- Selva, D. M., Hogeveen, K. N., Innis, S. M., & Hammond, G. L.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Western University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Hammond, Geoffrey L.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Published
- 2007-11-08
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3979-87
- ISSN
- 0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2066187
- OpenAlex
- W2026196869
- Cited by
- 232
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 4.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Child and Family Research Institute
- Michael Smith Health Research BC
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Lipid metabolism and disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Endocrinology › Estrogen and related hormone effects
- Keywords
- sex hormone-binding globulin, monosaccharides, glucose, fructose, lipogenesis, HNF4α, promoter cis-acting elements, palmitate, metabolic syndrome, hepatocytes, fructose consumption
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Animals, Chickens, Child, Child, Preschool, Fructose, Gene Expression Regulation, Glucose, Humans, Mice, Transgenic, Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Sweetening Agents, Biomarkers, Metabolic Syndrome, Cell Line, Tumor, Lipogenesis, Overweight, Mice, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4
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